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Othello and the Problem of Knowledge: Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein book cover

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Othello and the Problem of Knowledge Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein

By Richard Gaskin Copyright 2023
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge
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This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello . In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play. Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with traditional sceptical problems, and in particular with the problem of other minds. In this book,... Read more

1. Shakespeare, Descartes, and Scepticism

2. Mind, Communication, and Deception

3. Deception, Soliloquy, and Knowledge

4. Epistemological Models of the Tragedy (I): Loss of Knowledge

5. Context, Scepticism, and the Philosophy Room

6. Epistemological Models of the Tragedy (II): Loss of Certainty

7. Certainty, Hinges, and the Counterfactual

8. Epilogue

Biography

Richard Gaskin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, literary theory and criticism, and the classical tradition. His books include Language and World: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism (Routledge, 2020), Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective (Routledge, 2018), and Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism (2013).

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